Month: December 2008 (Page 3 of 5)

….whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who have ever been, and will ever be, animated by the same passions, and this they necessarily have the same results.
Discourses, Book Three, Chap. XLIII; see also Book One, Chap. XXXIX.